How to Decorate a Bathroom With Pink Toile

Decorate a bathroom with pink and white toile for a quintessential French look.

Toile, a French-inspired fabric depicting landscape scenes, dates back to the 1700s. It is sometimes a choice for homeowners who desire a French, formal look to their interiors. Pink and white toile is especially appropriate for bathroom spaces as it gives the entire room a soft look and feel. By combining toile with several French-themed decorating elements and accessories, an elegant bathroom decor is possible to enjoy for years to come.

Walls

Paint the four walls a light pink to serve as a backdrop for the entire pink toile bathroom decor. A little bit of toile usually goes a long way in a bathroom design, so adding simple, painted walls helps ground the space without adding additional pattern. Include crisp, white mouldings around the doors, floors, ceilings and windows to accentuate the architecture in the space and bring out the white in the pink and white toile fabrics. Finish the paint layer with a white ceiling to give it a visual feeling of height to balance the graphic toile designs in the room.

Textiles

Add pink and white toile textiles in the bathroom design. Include a pink and white toile, fabric shower curtain as the focal point in the decor. Choose a curtain that features soft pink as opposed to fuchsia varieties to tone down the graphic nature of toile so it is not too overwhelming, no matter what the size of the bathroom. Select light pink or white towels with toile fabric ruffle details. Use matching toile curtain panels on the windows to further the toile theme. Lay a pink and white striped, rubber-backed, bath rug on the floor to complement the toile fabric with style.

Lighting

Incorporate lighting to highlight the toile theme. Because toile is a formal, French fabric, amplify the look by hanging a crystal, candle-accented, chandelier from a high bathroom ceiling to accentuate the height of the ceiling and provide light at the same time. Clip pink and white toile, fabric shades to the chandelier candles to accent the toile decor. Further the decorating scheme with crystal, candle sconces on either side of the vanity mirror, and add toile fabric shades on them as well. Feature a small accent lamp on a French Provincial side table with a mercury glass base and toile lampshade to complete the French decor.

Accessories

Use toile fabric accessories to accent the space. Add a pink and white toile tissue box, water cup and soap dispenser on the sink area to highlight the theme. Include small, medium and large pink candles on silver candlesticks to add a soft glow to the decor. Place them in a corner on a vanity or on a ledge in a spa tub as an accent to the entire room. Position pink and white fabric or scrapbook paper in mercury glass frames and hang them on a bathroom wall. Store rolled towels in white baskets. Tie pink and white toile ribbons around the baskets to coordinate with the toile design of the room.

About the Author

Based in upstate New York, Amy Mosher has been writing interior design and lifestyle articles since 2005. She is a prolific professional blogger, designer, artist and writer for various websites. She holds a bachelor's degree from Mansfield University and is a graduate of the Sheffield School of Interior Design.